Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, read more

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.

When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist
independently of you in the world. They simply do read more

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist
independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the
physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal read more

Go far -- too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships are
built.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships are
built.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a
half.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a
half.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.